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Men, Porn and the Corruption of Healthy Masculinity

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1.5 CE Hour On Demand
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Description

This presentation will explore the staggering statistics of male pornography use and addiction and its impact on multiple generations of men, their lives of disconnection, and its effects on intimacy and masculinity.

Target Audience
  • Counselor
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
  • Social Worker
  • Psychologist
  • Counselor
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase knowledge about the effects of pornography on men’s ability to experience healthy masculinity.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least 2 ways pornography adversely affects healthy masculinity.

  • Describe the role of male socialization on men's sexuality and healthy intimacy.

  • Explain 3 or more key limitations on clinical work with men.

  • Summarize the role of trauma on men's ability to experience healthy intimacy and healthy sexuality.

References
  • Borgogna, N. C., McDermott, R. C., Berry, A. T., & Browning, B. R. (2020). Masculinity and problematic pornography viewing: The moderating role of self-esteem. Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 21(1), 81–94. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000214

  • de Heer, B. A., Prior, S., & Hoegh, G. (2021). Pornography, Masculinity, and Sexual Aggression on College Campuses. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(23-24), NP13582-NP13605. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520906186

  • Covington, S., Griffin, D. & Dauer, R. (2022). Helping Men Recover: A Program for Treating Addiction, 2nd Edition. Jossey-Bass.

  • Griffin, D., & De Carlo, J. (2024). Healing Men’s Pain Curriculum, Workbook, 1st Edition. Wiley Publishing.

  • Griffin, D. (2014). A Man’s Way through Relationships: Learning to Love and Be Loved. Central Recovery Press.

  • Karioris, F. G., & Allan, J. A. (2018). When two become one: sexuality studies and critical studies of men and masculinities. Journal of Gender Studies, 28(3), 247–256. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2018.1429257

  • Park, B.Y., et al. Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports. Behav. Sci. 2016, 6, 17

Intermediate
Clinical
Counselor

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LEPs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 Clinical continuing education credits.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is a CAMFT-approved continuing education provider, provider #1000101.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Counseling Services

Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 Clinical continuing education credits.

Psychologist

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Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
Please note that the references listed for this program include books authored by Dan Griffin, one of the instructors of the program. Participants are not required to purchase books authored by Dan Griffin. However, if participants do purchase these books, Dan Griffin will receive financial compensation for such purchases. This course is fiscally sponsored by Valor Recovery. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
Slides
  • Waiting Room Opens
  • Workshop Begins
  • Workshop Ends
Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Dan Griffin, M.A.

Dan Griffin has worked in the mental health and addictions fields for over three decades. He is recognized internationally as an expert with a particular focus on men, relationships, and trauma. From 2015 to 2017, Griffin was honored to serve as a senior fellow at The Meadows. He is the owner, founder, and lead consultant of Griffin Recovery Enterprises, Inc. Griffin was awarded Hazelden’s first training fellowship for addiction counseling in 1998. He has worked in a variety of areas in the addictions field: research, case management, public advocacy, recovery courts, teaching, and counseling.   

 

Griffin’s book, A Man’s Way through Relationships, is the first trauma-informed book written to help men create healthy relationships while navigating the challenges of internalizing the “Man Rules.” Griffin is also the author of, A Man’s Way through the Twelve Steps, the first trauma-informed book to take a holistic look at men’s sobriety. He also co-authored Helping Men Recover, the first comprehensive gender-responsive and trauma-informed curriculum for men. Griffin is the co-author of the two curricula Amazing Dads (with Harrison Crawford) published by Wiley in 2024 and Healing Men’s Pain (with Jonathan DeCarlo) published by Wiley in 2024. Griffin is working on books to go along with both curricula as well. Dan is also author of the book What Men Would Tell You if We Weren’t Too Busy Watching TV (with Dr. Allen Berger). 

Griffin’s graduate work was the first qualitative research centered on the social construction of masculinity in the culture of Alcoholics Anonymous. In 2012, Griffin was one of a small number of national experts invited by SAMHSA to help build a consensus definition of the terms “trauma” and “trauma-informed.” From 2015 through 2017, Griffin was honored to be named as a senior fellow at The Meadows. Griffin lives in California with his wife, Nancy, and his daughter, Grace, and has been in long-term recovery since he graduated college in May of 1994. 

Steven Wolt

Steven Wolt is an influential healthcare entrepreneur with a passion for breaking down barriers and reducing stigma to improve outcomes. Steve’s personal story and addiction, his recovery, and passion make him a truly inspirational leader.

Steve is the founder of Valor Recovery, a program for men to overcome problematic and compulsive sexual behaviors, porn abuse, and intimacy issues. Being in long term recovery from sexual compulsivity, this is a deeply personal mission to help to break down the barriers that prevent men from talking about these issues and getting help for them.

Prior to this, Steve was the President of Freedom Institute, a prestigious state of the art, not for profit, outpatient treatment and recovery center located in midtown Manhattan that was founded in 1976. Freedom Institute was a pioneer in the addiction treatment industry offering a range of innovative, evidenced based treatment services for adults, young adults and their families struggling with substance use, addictions and trauma. 

Steve was co-founder and CEO of Veritus, the nation’s first telehealth intensive outpatient treatment program for licensed professionals struggling with substance use disorders and mental health. From an idea on a piece of paper long before COVID, to partnering with one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious treatment providers, Freedom Institute, Veritus helped to eliminate the barriers professionals experience in accessing treatment. 

Prior to transitioning his career to working in behavioral health, Steve had a long and very successful career working in executive and employee benefits, estate planning, and insurance. Steve was regularly one of the top sales leaders in the industry having won numerous top producer awards from the largest insurance companies in the world. Steve has helped countless men on their journey to recovery. Steve currently resides in Bend, Oregon with his wife, Jennifer and their three dogs Topper, Henry and Quincy.

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